The editor of such Everyman's Pocket Classics editions as Christmas Stories, New York Stories, and Dog Stories, Diana Secker Tesdell offers this new anthology of two centuries of short fiction on our most majestic companion animal, presented in a handsome hardcover edition with a ribbon marker. Annie Proulx and Bret Harte transport us to the ranches of the Old West, and Rudyard Kipling tours the polo fields of India. Arthur Conan Doyle makes a famous Thoroughbred disappear, Raymond Carver gives us a vision of runaway horses in the mist, and Damon Runyon provides a dose of rollicking racetrack humor, while Jane Smiley, Margaret Atwood, Isaac Babel, and Ted Hughes explore the human passions horses can unleash.